[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Store Nothing in the Cloud – EVER!

All "the cloud" is is simply a hard drive other than yours. Buy a simple USB-capable SSD or other HD -- we have six terrabytes between two compouters of "cloud" of our own -- and then you have your own darn "cloud."

[BigFreakinToad]

Yep, storage is cheap or buy a NAS format it as a RAID and your good.

[ducttape45]

I never do. I don't even store data on my cell phone other than four pictures of my kids and a few songs. That's it.

All my data at home is kept on two external storage devices, one SSD and one HDD for redundancy. I don't even keep much on the local PC either. Once data is no longer needed, I store it away externally.

The military is big into cloud storage, and when our network went down, at the base I worked at several years ago, everyone lost EVERYTHING except me because I kept all my data local, even my emails. Afterwards everyone started copying my method of retaining info.

[MayflowerMadam]

I want to find a way to be able to access, and work on, the same document no matter which PC I’m using. I know that can be done via Drive, but I won’t do a cloud. 🫤

[Buttons12]

Buy a simple USB-capable SSD or other HD

I'm a packrat for those things. I also keep laptops that have no connectivity whatsoever. I'm not that nutty about anything else (far as I know...)